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| Sony 900ES SACD sound vs CD - Help Golly Martice, it is so wonderful of you to save us poor slobs from our dumb-ass purchase mistakes. But really, I think everyone on this forum who choses to buy an SACD player is doing so with eyes wide open as far as the viability of the format. ... | |
| Sony 900ES SACD sound vs CD - Help Oh, now that's helpful. | |
| Any experiences with Harbeth monitor 40? Simply Music in Nova Scotia is the North America distributor, and they are a featured Audiogon dealer too. They gave me the impression at CES (in the Audiogon room) that there will be a Harbeth push in the U.S. this year. I'd love to hear them too. | |
| Sound of 777ES during break in? Are you hearing this brightness and sibilance on SACDs also? | |
| Dodson DA-217 MK2-D My 777 is breaking in and will shortly go in to the system with the Dodson, replacing a Levinson transport. I should have a verdict in a couple of weeks. Fingers crossed. | |
| Aleph Owners and Users... Pardon my density here, but if you can't biamp or biwire with your Quads, how are you using the Aleph 3's as monoblocks? It's a stereo amp without bridging capability, is it not? Maybe you are using one channel per amp... | |
| Good percussion recordings Many good suggestions above. There is a gold audiophile edition of Planet Drum--highly recommended. For classical percussion, try the Safri Duo. I recommend two of their recordings on Chandos: "Goldrush", which features some purely percussion arra... | |
| Reynaud Trentes: Opinions and alternates I heard that exact combination of Trentes and Audion Silver in the JM Reynaud room at CES and it was magical indeed. Go for it. | |
| Shunyata Hydra I always look to Microsoft for guidance on audio. :-) | |
| converting standard cable to balanced Some cables can be re-terminated and some can not. For example, Cardas and Hamonic Tech can (I've done it) and WireWorld can not because apparently they use a different cable for the balanced version of Eclipse or whatever vs. the unbalanced versi... | |
| If you could remaster three cd's... Top of mind: Joni Mitchell "Song to a Seagull", Jefferson Airplane "Volunteers", and Dave Liebman "Lookout Farm", but I'd settle for that last one just to be released on CD. None are great fidelity, so a little remastering improvement would be wel... | |
| Dunlavy Cantatas What Power Amp? They used Aloia with their bigger speakers. They had the Cantatas and the Alethas in a differet room and were using two sets of amplification: Rowland and some stuff builts a friend of John Dunlavy, Paris somebody, who was there helping out with t... | |
| Theta GenVa Upgrade Re: the original post, check out the Dodson. In your price range and probably about as good as it gets save for the pricier dCS combos. | |
| Levinson in Lexus If you bought the car just a couple of weeks ago. maybe the system isn't broken in yet. | |
| Aleph Owners and Users... So Tom, when you say you are using the 3's a monoblocks, does that mean you are doing a vertical bi-amp arrangement, splitting the input into two channels and driving the bass with one and the mid/tweet with the other channel? |